(n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
(n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.
Example Sentences:
(1) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
(2) Colossus wasn't the only reason why negotiations fell apart.
(3) One site, two entry fees The most longstanding issue is ticketing: none of the £15 entry price to Bletchley Park goes to TNMOC, so the museum has to charge a second fee to visitors (currently £2 to visit just Colossus and £5 to see the whole museum).
(4) One way around the Sky colossus would be to develop ITV.com and provide a paid service via the internet.
(5) At a glitzy opening for the biggest building to be built in Rome in decades – a €363m (£307m) colossus in the EUR neighbourhood that took almost 20 years to build – Raggi took to the stage to express her disapproval for the work as a symbol of waste and extravagance.
(6) At that stage Newcastle were in complete control, with Cabaye a colossus in midfield.
(7) Colossus isn't owned by TNMOC; it is on long-term loan from Colossus Rebuild Limited, a shell company created by Tony Sale, himself a founder member of the Bletchley Park Trust, for that purpose.
(8) The man who towers over them like a colossus in terms of British blockbusting appeal is street trader's son Jason Statham , a former Olympic diver.
(9) Horwood, whose parents worked at GCHQ and at Bletchley Park where his father helped to build the Colossus network, said: "If you do cast too much sunlight on some of these things they actually stop working.
(10) Ibrahimovic remains elite European football’s own dazzling kung-fu colossus, a player whose famously moreish highlights reel is backed by the hard yards of goals scored, 12 league titles won at six different clubs and an underrated appetite for the physical battle.
(11) The power station will become a big Westfield with a shopping centre inside.” But Tincknell says the height of the new buildings will be capped at 60 metres, which means the brick colossus’s four white chimneys will be visible from afar.
(12) Vivendi Universal yesterday dismantled former chief executive Jean-Marie Messier's dream of a French-American media colossus by finalising the sale of its entertainment assets to NBC.
(13) But there are those who believe Amazon is now trying to do too many hard things at once – and at the same time facing mounting competition from multiple new rivals, from TV broadcasters to supermarkets and a Chinese colossus opening in its own US backyard.
(14) He believes, as he argues in the new book, that "financial history is the essential backstory behind all history"; it is an approach that is both illuminating and sets him apart, but critics such as Stephen Howe, a professor of the history and culture of colonialism at Bristol University, worry that in Empire and Colossus in particular, the instinct for a cost-benefit analysis has precluded the humanity that marked The Pity of War (1998), which was about "blood and tears as much as cash".
(15) I think getting them all round a table actually talking through everything would be the best way to sort it out.” Colossus: Bletchley's crowning achievement Hitler's second world war intelligence systems were formidable.
(16) Trace the Nile about 2,250km upstream and there's a rising colossus that threatens to upset a millennia-old balance.
(17) "Colossus, who cracked the Enigma code," Coogan ploughs on, "the bouncing bomb, Manchester United, unions, people who galvanised the working people."
(18) Sale's achievements in building Colossus and leading the campaign to preserve Bletchley Park were widely admired.
(19) It appears that we will have to wait a while for Sony's killer IPs, like Uncharted, God Of War, LiitleBigPlanet and Shadow of the Colossus, to make it to the new console.
(20) Resurgent pop colossus David Bowie can look forward to even more royalties from Life on Mars?
Creature
Definition:
(n.) Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
(n.) A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
(n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
(n.) A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
(2) "They are soul-less creatures pandering to the NRA ."
(3) The outcome is a belief that the Earth is being slowly strangled by a gaudy coat of impermeable plastic waste that collects in great floating islands in the world's oceans; clogs up canals and rivers; and is swallowed by animals, birds and sea creatures.
(4) While his more eminent predecessors, Gerald Durrell and John Aspinall, established that displaying wild creatures may occasionally be compatible with respect for them, zoos around the world have also sanitised – with extravagant claims about conservation, breeding programmes and species reintroduction – the essentially unchanged business of showing caged animals for cash.
(5) But nevertheless Theco is a fascinating creature because of both its place in the history of palaeontology and what it reveals about the south-west of England in prehistoric times.
(6) Although most studies emphasise the similarity of the australopithecines to modern man, and suggest, therefore, that these creatures were bipedal tool-makers at least one form of which (Australopithecus africanus--"Homo habilis", "Homo africanus") was almost directly ancestral to man, a series of multivariate statistical studies of various postcranial fragments suggests other conclusions.
(7) Highlights included TV series All Creatures Great and Small, competing in Strictly Come Dancing and starring in the touring stage production of Calendar Girls.
(8) They are two separate creatures with very different structures, more like a virus and a host: co-dependent but each with delusions about who is the superior form of life.
(9) Like traditional English philanthropists, the ladies running Hailsham believe that some wider public will feel more humanely towards these "poor creatures" if they can be shown to make art.
(10) Arthur Koestler in The Act of Creation expresses it thus: "From the Pythagoreans onward, through the Renaissance to our times, the oceanic feeling, the sense of participation in the mystery of the infinite, was the principal inspiration of the wingèd and flat-footed creature, the scientist."
(11) A campaign involving children in Syrian villages has latched on to the Pokémon Go craze, asking gamers in the west to take a break from their frenzied hunt for digital creatures to turn their attention to young people trapped in war zones.
(12) They could hardly believe it, this tiny creature sitting on the bench.
(13) The film uses new technology to transport viewers back 200 million years, to the time when pterosaurs lived – flying creatures with a wingspan of up to 14 metres.
(14) The unfairly maligned camel is a model of sleek, practical and elegant design compared with the clumsy creature the coalition has produced.
(15) When Rolls-Royce launched a $1.2m Year of the Dragon edition of its Phantom, with the creature hand-painted on its wheelbase and hand-stitched on to cushions, all eight sold in two months.
(16) Many of the patients anthropomorphise the seal, enjoy pretending that it is a real, living creature, with all the associated foibles.
(17) Executives at Lafarge global headquarters in Paris should take note that the second part of the name allocated by the molusc specialists who named this new creature is lafargei.
(18) In some ways, roaches are no different to gorillas, gerbils or iguanas, or any other creatures that we don’t routinely eat.
(19) Records show there were many reports of beaching whales in the Netherlands in the early 17th century, prompting a surge of public interest in the creatures.
(20) Sir David suggested spyholes to allow the public to watch the gorillas without the creatures realising they were being observed, but he didn’t seem entirely convinced by his own idea.